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REV. L. U. SNEAD. 



*'^The entrance of thy words giveth light,^^ {Ps, iig: 130.) 
Thy word is a lamp unto tny feet^ and a light u7ito "tny 

path.''^ {Psalms iig: lo^-)' 

" Thy words have I hid in my hearty that I might not sifi 

against thee.''' {Psalms 11 g: 11.) 



**You might as well use other people's hats or shoes as to 
use other people's Bibles. I'd sell niy clothes any day to 
buy a good one if I had none." — Rams Horn. 



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CONTENTS. 



PAGE 

The Voice 3 

The Bible Neglected 4 

Study to Feed Rather Thaa Dazzle 5 

Bible Marking and Reading 5 

Mark the Dates of Great Spiritual Blessings 7 

Belief and Trust 7 

Different Colored Inks 8 

Blank Pages 10 

Title Chapters il 

Ink Pen and Ruler 12 

Marked Envelopes 12 

Verses 13 

The Great Invitation 13 

Don't Know How to Come to Christ, etc 13 

Say They Can't Believe 13 

They Must Come 13 

Don't Know How to Come to Christ, etc 13 

Don't Know How to Come to Christ, etc 14 

The " Believings " of John 14 

To Believe is to Have 14 

Think Themselves too Great Sinners. . ; 14 

Not Deeply Convicted of Sin 14 

Can't Forgive 14 

Entertaining False Hopes 14 

The Hope That All Will be Saved, etc 15 

We Should Build Our Hope Not by What We Feet, 

but on God's Word 15 

For the Danger of Delay 15 

Danger of Postponing a Decision 15 

Christians are so Inconsistent 15 

Grace for the Weakest 15 



CONTENTS. 

page: 

Need Not Fail 15. 

Do Not Fear Persecution ... 15 

Don't be Afraid of Loss to Become a Christian. ... iS 
The Devil Will Try to Make You Believe There is Too 

Much to Give Up 16 

Afraid of Losing Their Companions 16 

For the Time to be Saved 16 

Reap What We Sow 16 

Sowing to the Flesh 16 

Sowing to the Spirit 17 

Go Away Trusting and Come Back Doubting .... 1/ 

As the Heart is the Life Will be 17 

The Careless Backsliders 17 

Backsliders Who Wish to Come Back to the Lord . . 17 

Examples of the Backsliders Redeemed 17 

Will Try to be Saved 17 

For Contrasts in Conversions 18 

Are Afraid They Will Fall 18 

Having Received Christ ? How to Walk in Him. 

By Faith 18; 

What is Walking in the Light? 18; 

*' No Darkness at All to One Hid With Christ in God." 19) 

No Night 19 

Sanctified Through the Truth 19 

A True Christian is not of the World 19^ 

** Fruit of Righteousness " is Not in Them That Make 

Trouble, etc 19 

Verses For Those Who Lack Assurance 20 

If Any Lack Wisdom , 20. 

A Recipe For All Trouble 20 

The Christian's Life is one of Peace 20 

For Christians Who are Undergoing Persecutions. . . 20 

One Thing Never Fails 20 

There are so Many Things in the Bible Which I Can- 
not Understand 20 

In Doubting Castle 2r 



CONTENTS. 



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A Prepared Salvation 21 

Keys 23 

Kuow 24 

Fruit Chapter 24 

Important Bible Facts 24 

Revised New Testament 25 

Translation of the English Bible 25 

The Believer's Bank Note 26 

Character Building 27 

The Home is the Storm Center of God's Blessing or 

Curse 27 

A Mother 28 

Four Cardinal Points 28 

Courage 29 

The Ministry of the Holy Spirit 29 

Topical Method of Bible Study 30 

In That Day 33 

Mansions 34 

How to Succeed 35 

Helps to Bible Study 36 

Woman as Man's Equal in All Christian Privileges. . . 38 

The Second Coming 41 

A Great Physician 41 

The Bible and Childhood 42 

Grace ; 42 

Sunday-School Teachers' Decalogue 43 

Five Elements of Success in Teaching 44 

For Preachers and Teachers 45 

The Bible and its Students 45 

After the Sermon or Lesson 45 

What Can I Do ? 46 

IvOve 46 

Sins . . 46 

Word Analysis of the Books of the Bible 47 

Books of the Bible in Verse 49 

Chapters of Pure Gold 51 



GOD'S BEST. 



God has His best things for the few 

That dare to stand the test ; 
God has His second choice for those 

Who will not have His best. 

It is not always open ill 

That risks the Promised Rest ; 
The better, often, is the foe 

That keeps us from the best. 

There's scarce ly one but vaguely wants 

In some way to be blest ; 
'Tis not Thy blessing, Lord, I seek, 

I want Thy very best. 

And others make the highest choice, 

But when by trials pressed. 
They shrink, they yield, they shun the cross. 

And so they lose the best. 

I want, in this short life of mine, 

As much as can be pressed 
Of service true for God and man ; 

Help mc to be my best. 

I want to stand when Christ appears 

In spotless raiment dressed ; 
Numbered among His hidden ones, 

His holiest and best. 

I want among the victor throng 

To have my name confessed ; 
And hear my Master say at last, 

*' Well done ; you did your best." 

Give me, O Lord, Thy highest choice ; 

Let others take the rest ; 
Their good things have no charm for me, 

For I have got Thy best. 

— Selected^. 



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The Voice. 

Stand thou still awhile that I may show thee 
the word of God. — I Sam. 9: 27. 

Consider how great things He hath done for you, 
— I Sam. 12: 24. 

Are the consolations of God small with thee ? — 
Job 15: 12. 

When He giveth quietness, who then can make 
trouble ? — Job 34: 29. 

The Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow 
and from thy fear. — Isa. 14: 3. 

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after 
righteousness, for they shall be filled. — Matt. 5: 6. 

There hath not failed one word of all His good 
promises. — I Kings 8: 56. 

Hear the v/ords of the Lord your God. — ^Joshua 

3-9- 

Blessed are they that put their trust in Him, — 
Psalm 2: 12. 

A1.1. are yours, and yk are Christ's. — I Cor. 
3: 22, 23. 

Benedictus. 

The Lord bless thee and keep thee. The Lord viake 
His face shine up07i thee, and be gracious unto thee. 
The Lord lift up His countenance upon thee^ and give 
iJiee peace, — Num. 6 : 2^^ ^5, 26. 



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The Bible Neglected. 

** It is better to hear God rather than man, and 
I believe we are living in a day when the Bible is 
neglected, although we are living in a land of 
Bibles. The Psalmist said it was hidden in his 
heart. Some one has remarked that it was 2i good 
thi7ig\x\2i good place for a good purpose. Now, I never 
saw a useful Christian who was not a student of the 
Bible. If a man neglects his Bible, he may pray 
and ask God to use him in His work, but God 
cannot make much use of him, for there is not 
much for the Holy Spirit to work upon. We must 
have the word itself, which is sharper than any two- 
edged sword. The reason why some people have 
such bitter experience is, they try to overcome the 
devil by their feelings and experiences. We cannot 
overcome Satan with our feelings. Christ over- 
came Satan by the Word. He simply said : " It is 
written ' ' : and a second time, " It is written ' ' : and 
Satan came and tried to misquote the Scripture, 
but Christ said again, "It is written"; and that 
was the arrow that shot right into him and drove 
him away. The devil does not care a bit about our 
feelings. He can play on our feelings just as a 
man can on a harp. He can make our feelings 
good or bad ; he can take us up on the mountain, 
or down into the valley : and we can only vanquish 
him by the Word, which is the sword of the Spirit. " 
— D. L. Moody. '' How to Study the Bible/' 
Fleming Revells Co. , New York. 



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Study to Fekd, Rather than Dazzle. 

** Any coward cau admire and praise Jesus Christ, 
but it takes a hero to follow Him. We cannot 
move the world if we let it move us," therefore, 
''Study to show thyself approved unto God, a work- 
mail that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing 
the word of truths — (// Tiifi. 2: 75.) 

If the people be hungry, it is better to feed them 
than to dazzle them ; even though you be able to 
do it with the sheen of diamonds. 

Dash jewels to stones rather than miss your mark. 
With a Bible full of promises, and a God full of 
delight to see you ''Divinely confident and bold " 
to claim them, what is there to hold you back ? 

God would have you holy. Meet God in His 
purposes. *' Take time to be holy." Oh, how He 
rejoices over holy souls to do them good. 

Grace has oceans unexplored; a fulness unex- 
liausted and untried. Why should not the reader 
be the one to fathom some new deeps of God ? 

Bible Marking and Reading. 

Have a good Bible, Bourgeois type, Marginal 
references, well bound, silk sewed, calf lined, print- 
ed on paper that will stand ink. 

One with Concordance in back and self- pronounc- 
ing is best. 

Mark the first page with your name and your life 
chapter or text, and add your birthday chapters or 
texts as milestones in the journey of life. 



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It is a splendid practice for each one in the home 
circle who can, to memorize a birthday chapter for 
each one's birthday, and on that day recite it from 
memory and write over the chapter, the name and the 
milestone of life. For instance : " Mabel's ninth 
milestone," {Prov. jrd chapter). 

Select the chapters long enough ahead to allow 
plenty of time for all to commit them thoroughly. 
Try memorizing God's Word each week. * The 
Holy Spirit can increase our capacity to take in, 
and strengthen our memories to hold the Word of 
Life. 

''/ will commune with thee f7'om above the ')nercy 
seat, ' ' — {Exodus 2^: 22 . ) 

' ' Arid truly our fellowship is ivith the Father, and 
with His Son, Jesus Christ,'' — {I John i:j.) 

It is so blessed to memorize the Word. Begin 
with John 14th chapter and follow with the 15th, 
i6th and 17th. The whole of the Epistle of John. 
Matthew 5 and 6. Proverbs 3d. Psalms 23, 24, 
27j 32, 37, 51, 91. Joshua ist, and many others. 
Make a memoranda of your conversion as an epocli 
that will be cekbrated in eternity; but, remember, 
that to remain a babe is to become a dwarf, and fail 
to attain the end for which you were born. 

Therefore you 7nust ''grow in grace, and in the 
knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." — 
(//Peterj:iS.) 

But you will only grow as you ' ' search [ransack] 
the Scriptures." Eat the Word. " Thy words were 



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founds aiid I did eat them ; and thy word was unto Tue 
the joy and rejoiciyig of fnine heart.^' — ^J^^- ^5' ^^') 

* * / have esteemed the words of His mouth m,ore than 
my necessary food. ' ' — {^fob 2j: 12.) 

Jesus very clearly and distinctly marks a supreme 
condition of soul health, and of ^ state of recep- 
tivity where He can put His hands upon yoa 
to utilize you for His glory, in St. fohn 8: jz, j^. 

* ' Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed 
on Him, 

''If ye continue in my word, then, are ye my 
disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and 
the truth shall make you free.'' 

Mark the Dates of Grk at Spiritual Blessings. 

If some earnest prayer is divinely answered note 
it with a reference to the promise which brought the 
blessing. As some old Scotchman has said, ' ' There 
are 31,000 promises in the Bible." 

They stand out clean-cut and well-defined and 
mean just what they say. 

But many when they read begin to pare down the 
essential elements of these precious promises, and 
say they do not quite mean what the words indicate. 
Beloved, they are true ; trust them. 

Belief and Trust. 

There is a difference between belief and trust 
which w^e do not always recognize. The former ia 
a simple assent to what we are willing to admit as a 
fact ; while the latter involves a complete committal 



8 BIBI.K MARKING AND READING. 

of ourselves to the truth of the fact, even though it 
seems to put us in peril to do so. 

A party of visitors at the national mint were told by a 
workman in the smelting works that if the hand be dipped 
in water a ladle full of the moUen metal could be poured 
over the palm without burning it. A gentleman and his 
wife heard the strange statement. 

** Perhaps you would like to try it ? " said the workman. 
*'No, thank you," said the gentleman shrinking back. 
^*I prefer to take your word for it." Turning to the lady 
the workman said : 

** Would you like to make the experiment, madam? " 
** Certainly," she replied; and suiting the action to the 
word, she removed her glove, turned back her sleeve, and 
thrust her hand into a bucket of water; then she calmly 
held it out while the liquid metal was poured over it. 
Turning to the gentleman, the workman quietly said: 
" You, sir, it may be, believed ; but your wife trusted.'* 
We believe God's promises ; do we trust them ? 

Different Colored Inks. 

Have a plan for marking your Bible, but how- 
ever simple, have one. Be original and aim at 
quality more than quantity. Take time to select 
wisely and mark carefully, and your Bible will 
become " Sweeter than honey and the honeycomb,'* 
and ''More to be desired than gold, yea, than much 
fine gold." A companion for usefulness that will 
be priceless. 

1ST. Red. Salvatioji. Wherever the word 5^/Z''a- 
tio7i, blood, or Christ is mentioned, put a neat, little 
cross in red ink, on margin opposite the verse. 
That means that Jesus went all the way to Calvary 
and shed His blood for you. Make this marvelous 



bibIvE; marking and rkading. 



fact stand out more prominent by marking a perpen- 
diailar line at the beginning and end of the verse 
with red i?ik. 

2ND . Yellow . The Holy Spirit Whenever the 
Holy Spirit, or Holy Ghost, is spoken of, mark a 
perpendicular lijie at the beginning and end of the 
verse with yellow ink, and put H. S. on margin, 
opposite verse in same color. The Holy Spirit is the 
Executive of the Godhead, the Representative of 
the Father and the Son. The Illuminator of the 
Word. The Revealer of Jesus ; Reminder. (John 
4: 26.) Not an influence or an emanation from the 
Father and the Son, but a person. 

3RD. ViOLKT. Se7^ice. (Deut. 10:12; Luke i: 
74, 75, and many others.) Mark at the beginning 
and end of verse and put a capital S. on margin 
opposite verse in violet ink. 

4TH. Bluk. Divine Healing . (Exodus 15: 26; 
Matt. 8: 17 ; James 5: 13, 14, 15, and others.) Mark 
the beginni7ig and e?id of verse, with perpe7idiciilar 
line, and put initials D. H. on margin opposite in 
blue i?ik. 

5TH. Grkkn. Second Coming, (I Thess. 4: 16, 
17, 18; Rev. 22: 12, 20.) There are hundreds of 
passages like these that refer to the/acttha.t Jesus is 
coming again. 

Interline the verses, and opposite on margin put 
S. C. \w gree7i ink. 

6th. Black. Condemnation. (Rom. 8: 3, and 
many others.) Make a perpendicular line at the 



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begi7i7iing and end of verse iu black ink, and opposite 
on margin put the letter C. 

7TH. Purple. Use purple for the promises, 
by putting a perpendicular line at the begi7i7iing and 
aid of verse, and also, for general marking on 
margin and blank paper, etc. 

Be choice in marking your Bible. Don't mark it 
too much, so it will detract from the Word itself. 

But mark the great events of your life in your 
Bible so you can turn to them at any moment to re- 
assure your mind that the promises are true, and 
that the Bible, the Holy Spirit, and the Providences 
of God are the most reliable basis of faith in the 
world. And if we faithfnlly ^r\A prayerfully follow 
these we will not go contrary to the will of God. 

Blank Pages. 

Get a few sheets of onion skin paper and paste 
some leaves neatly here and there through your 
Bible. Now and then a stanza of some hymn will 
be so blessed to you that you will want to copy it. 
And on these blank pages you can make a note of 
good illustrations. 

If you do not pin them down good things will 
leave you. 

These blank pages are excellent for outlining a 
few choice Bible readings, etc., and with your Bible 
as a constant companion at all services they will be 
of inestimable value. 

Put your own name on margin alongside of the 



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most precious promises. This makes them more 
personal — so real. 

Make a personal application as you search the 
Word. For instance : Write on margin, over 
// Cor, g:6, 7, 8, (and connect to verses with 
a fine line) the words, A Per so7ial Application . 

And on Margin over Psahns ijg :2j, 24, write A 
Perso7ial Search. The Soul's Search- Warrant, That 
means to search me. O God ! not my neighbor, 
not my brother, not my sister, but 7)ie, 

If we read the Bible by the aid of the Holy Spirit 
this way how soon it' would become a revealed and 
not a sealed book. It would become of inestimable 
value, priceless. 

Title Chapters. 

We need some system by which to locate impor- 
tant chapters and verses. Write the title at the 
beginning of each chapter. 

Over St, Joh?i, jd chapter^ write ''New Birth 
Chapter." 

Over Isaiah 12th, Convert's Chapter, and over 
JoshAia 1st, Courage Chapter, and so on until each 
chapter is v/ell marked. {^See list i?i back of book,) 
When yon hear a sermon or Bible reading and some 
good thoughts strike you forcibly, mark the text 
and by its side on margin put the seed thoughts. 
When it strikes your eye again it will come back as 
fresh as when delivered. 



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Ink, Pen and Ruler. 

Prepare yourself with seven different colored inks 
and seven fine tracing pens, with holders, and a 
little ruler. With such an outfit you will be ready 
to mark your Bible neatly and intelligently so that 
it will become more impressive and valuable as the 
years go by. 

If you are a parent or Sunday School teacher you 
can much more deeply interest your children, or 
scholars, in Bible study by marking their Bibles and 
by teaching thera how to mark their own. In- 
terested parents will have interested children. In- 
terested Sunday School teachers will have interested 
scholars. Let us wake up and sober up, / Thess. 
5/ 6 ; Jer. jj: j ; Ruth 2: 12. 

Marked Envelopes. 

Get a dozen or so of large envelopes with strings 
attached like those used by lawyers and others for 
filing documents. On one write the word Love, 
another. Faith, another, Prayer, Obedience, Conse- 
cration, Holy Spirit, Second Coming, Divine Heal- 
ing, etc., etc. 

Now when reading if some quotation or illustra- 
tion impresses you on any of these subjects clip it out 
of the paper, or make a note of it on a slip of paper, 
and place in envelope, under proper head, and when 
you are preparing a Bible reading on these subjects 
you will find your selections of great value. Try it* 



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Verses. 

The Bible is the most helpful of all books. It 
meets every phase of human life. Well did the 
Psalmist say, ''Thy IVord is a Isnnp unto my feet, 
and a light unto my path." (Psalm iig: 105^ It 
clearly exhibits a prepared salvation. ' ' It contains 
food for the hungry, living water for the thirsty, a 
home for the alien, a friend for the forsaken, aid for 
the helpless, strength for the weak, encouragement 
for the discouraged, joy for the sorrowing, peace for 
the troubled, consolation for the bereaved and eter- 
nal life for all who believe." 

Mark passages that will help you in dealing wdth 
inquirers of every kind. 

For instance : — 

The Great Invitation. 

Revelation 22: 17. Matt. 11:28. 

Don't Know How to Comb to Christ. Thev 
Must Receive a Person, not a Creed. 

St. John 1:12. 

Say They Can't Believe. 

St. John 7: 17. 

They Must Come. 

St. John 6: 37. Isaiah 55: i. 

Don't Know How to Come to Christ. 

They must take 2. gift. Psalm 116: 13. Rom. 6: 
23. Rev. 22: 17. 



14 BIBI,E MARKING AND READING. 

Don't Know How to Come to Christ. 
They must trust. Psalm 34: 8. 

The " Believings " of John. 

Don't know how to come to Christ. They must 
believe. To persuade a man that Christ is the Son 
of God take him through the Gospel of John. John 
3: 15, 16, 18 and 36. Also 5: 24 and 6: 40, 47. 

To Believk is to " Have." 
St. John 3: 15, 16. 

Think Themselves too Great Sinners. 

They are under deep conviction. Isa. i: 18 ; 53: 
4,5; 43:25; 44:22. Rom. 10:6. Matt. 18:11; 
9: 12. I Peter 2: 24. 

Not Deeply Convicted of Sin. 

Isa. 1:5, 6, and 53:6. I John i: 10. Rom. 3: 
10, 12-23. 

Can't Forgive. 

Matt. 6: 15 ; 18: 23-35. Luke 6: 37. Epli4*32. 
Gal. 5: 22, 23. 

'' Entertaining False Hopes." 

Gal. 2: 16. Rom. 3: 19, 20. Gal. 3: 10. Jas. 2: 
7, 8. Matt. 22:37, 38; 5:20. Luke 18:10-14; 
16: 15. I Sam. 16: 7. Heb. 10: 28, 29. 



BIBI^K M-ARKING AND READING. I5 

The Hope That All Will Be Saved. " God is 
TOO Good to Dam Any One." 

Rom. 2:4, 5. St. John 8: 21, 24; 3: 36. II Peter 3: 
9-11. Ezek. 33:11. II Peter 2: 4-6, 9. Luke 13:3. 

We Should Build Our Hope Not by What Wk 
Feel but On God's Word. 

Prov. 14: 12. St. John 3: 36. Luke 18: 9-14. 
Josh, i: 8. St. John 8: 31, 32. 

For the Danger of Delay. 

Prov. i: 24, 28. Psalms 9: 17. II Peter 2: 9. 

" Danger of Postponing a Decision." 

Isaiah 55:6. Prov. 27:1; 29:1. Matt. 24:44; 
25: 10-13. Luke 12: 19, 20. I Kings 18: 21. James 
4: 13, 14. Luke 13: 24, 25. St. John 12: 35. Heb. 
3: 15. Eccl. 12: I. 

'Christians are so Inconsistent." 
Rom. 14: 12; 2: 1-5. Matt. 7:1-5. 

' ' Grace for the Weakest. ' ' 

II Cor 12: 9, 10. PhiL 4: 13. I Cor. 10: 13. 

'' Need Not Fail." 

Luke 22:31, 32. Rom. 8:3, 4. Psalm 119: 11. 
I John 5:4. I Peter 5: 6-10. See Revised Version. 

'' Do Not Fear Persecution." 

II Tim. 3:12. Matt. 5: 10-12. Mark 8:35-38. 
Rom. 8: 18. Acts 14: 22. II Tim. 2: 12. Heb. 12: 2, 3. 



1 6 BIBI,E MARKING AND READING. 

*' Don't Be Afraid of Loss to Become a Chris- 
tian." 

Mark 8: 36. Matt. 6: 33. 

The Devil Will Try to Make You Believe 
There is too Much to Give Up. 

Mark 8: 36. Ps. 84:11. Rom. 8: 32. I John 2: 
15-17. Heb. 11:24-26. 

*' Afraid of Losing Their Companions." 

Prov. 13: 2c. Psalms 1:1, 2. I John i: 3. 
James 4: 4. 

For The Time to be Saved. 

II Cor. 6:2. Heb. 3: 7. 

Reap What We Sow. 

Gal. 6: 7, 8. Be wise ! Seed time and harvest 
will come. 

Sowing to the Flesh. 

Rom. 13; 13. Gal. 5: 19, 20, 21. "The works of 
night are enumerated in pairs : ist — Sensuality 
in the form of eating and drinking ; then impurity, 
those of beastal libertinism and wanton lightness ; 
finally, the passions which break out either in per- 
sonal disputes [jealousy] or party quarrels." — Go- 
defs Com. ''The three particulars adduced stand 
in the eternal connection of cause and effect." — 
Myers, 



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Sowing to the Spirit. 

Gal. 5: 22, 23, 24, 25, 26. The end : Life ever- 
lasting. 

Go Away Trusting and Comk Back Doubting. 

They have neglected to confess Christ. Matt. lo: 
32. Rom. 10:9, 10. Luke 6: 45. 

As THE Heart is thb Life Wii.Iv Bk. 

Prov. 4: 23. Matt 6: 21 and 12: 34, 35, 36, 37. 

The CareIvKss Backsi^idkrs. 

Jeremiah 2: 5, 13, 19, 27, 32. I Kings 11:9. Prov. 
14: 14. The Lord was angry. Divine anger as 
presented in the Bible is no sudden outburst of pas- 
sion, no low and hateful notion of revenge, as 
human anger often is. It is rather the deep eternal 
antagonism of holiness to sin, of truth to error, 
of right to wrong. I Kings 11:9. 

Backsliders Who Wish to Comk Back to the 

Lord. 

Jeremiah 3:12, 13, 22. I John 1:9; 2: 12. 
II Chron. 15:4. Hosea 14: i, 2, 4. 

Examples of Backsliders Reclaimed. 

David, Peter, Thomas, and all the disciples. 

Will Try to Be Saved. 

Rom. 4: 5. It's not by trying. As long as you 
are trying to believe you are disbelieving. Quit 
that. Cease trying. Believe, believe. 



l8 BIBI.K MARKING AND RKADING. 

'' Long my yearning heart was trying, 
To enjoy this perfect rest ; 
But I gave all trying over : 

Simply trusting I was blessed." 

Get the consent of your will. I John 3:19, 20, 
21 and 22. 

For Contrasts in Conversions. 

Acts 1 6th chapter, Lydia and the jailer. Acts 
8th chapter, the eunuch. Acts loth, the centurion. 

Are Afraid They Will Fall. 

Isa. 44: 10, 13. Col. 3: 3, 4. II Tim. i: 12. Rom. 
S* 35 » 36, 37, 38, 39. Here we see the fact clearly 
revealed that no power in earth or hell can make a 
man tone down in his religious life, backslide, only 
as he wills. May God fix this thought in your soul 
forever. 

Having Received Christ. How to Walk in 
Him? by Faith. 

Col. 2:6, 7. IThess. 4:1. I Cor. 11:23. ''As 
[since] ye have received Christ " — "walk in Him/' 
— be steadfast. Have heart loyalty. Christ was 
communicated to them as the element of life. The 
fact : — We must walk. How ? By faith. Poverty 
of faith will never bring about this establishment. 

What is Walking in the Light ? 

A progressive work: A step at a time. A nat- 
ural, regular, forward movement. I John 2: 6; 1:7. 



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' ' No Darkness at all ' ' to one ' ' Hid with 
Christ in God." 

I John i: 5. St. John 8: 12. 
No Night. 

** There is no night for one with perfect trust, 

Just one long day ; 
E'en though trials come, as come they must, 

Along life's way, 
The sun shines on with pulsing glow the same, 

An undimmed light, 
Shadows fall, but darkness hath no name — 

There is no night." 

**Sanctifed Through the Truth," is to be 

Separated from sin. II Cor. 6: 16,17,18. Rom. 12: 2. 

Dedicated to God. Rom. 12: i. 

Filled with the Holy Ghost. Acts 2:4; 13:52. 

A True Christian is not of the World. 

St. John 15:18, 19; 17:15, 16, 17, 18, 19,20, 
21, 23. A Christian does not belong to the world, 
but belongs to the new creation. God has taken 
him out of the old and put him in the new, and 
therefore he keepeth himself from the world. ' ' His 
power is in his separateness from the world, not 
in his affiliation with it. ' ' 

* ' Fruit of Righteousness ' ' is not in Them 

That Make Trouble, Contention, Strife, 

Bickering. 

James 3:10-18. Rom. 12:9. I Peter 1:22; 
2:1-3. I John 3:18. Prov. 11:18. Matt. 5:9. 
Phil, i: II. 



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Versks for Those Who Lack Assurance. 

I John 5: 13. St. John 1:12; 3:36; 5:24. Acts 
13-39. I John 5: II, 12. St. John 8: 12. Isa. 55: 7. 

'' If Any Lack Wisdom.'' 
James 1:5. 

A Recipe for All Trouble. 
PhU. 4:6, 7. St. John 14:27. Col. 3: 15. 

The Christian Life is One of Peace. 

Matt. 11: 28, 29, 30. Prov. 3: 17. St. John 14: 
27. Isaiah 26:3, 4. Prov. 16:7. 

For Christians Who are Undergoing Per- 
secutions. 

Matt. 5:10-12. I Peter 4: 12-14; 4* i^5 2:21, 
23; 3: 17, 18. II Tim. 3: 12. 

One Thing Never Fails. 

The Lord's promise. Deut 2: 7. Joshua 23: 14. 

There are so Many Things in the Bible which 
I Cannot Understand. 

Two ladies came to Rev. Sam. Jones, the South- 
ern evangelist, and said to him : " Mr. Jones, there 
are so many things in the Bible which we cannot 
understand," and they were troubled. 

Mr. Jones replied in his unique way: *' Ladies, 
you haven't as good sense as my cow down in 
Georgia. We have to feed her on hay, and there 
are a good many briars in it, but she has sense 



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enough to eat the hay and leave the briars alone. 
The Bible is full of good hay, enough to save your 
souls, eat it and let the briars be." 

See I Cor. 2: 14. Rom. 11: 33. I Cor. 13: 11, i^ 
Psalm 119: 18. II Peter 3: 16-18. 

In Doubting Castile. 

The whole of John's first Epistle was written for 
the professing Christian who has no liberty, and is 
in doubting castle. I John 5:13; 3:2, 14, 24. 

A Prepared Salvation. 

*' The Christia?i's Secret of a Happy Life,'' of a 
Sez 'en -fold Blessiiig . 

1ST. '' My Peace." The peace of Jesus. {St, 
John 14: 27.) The peace that is the opposite of fever, 
w^orry or fret, opposite of strife. The peace that en- 
abled Jesus to be composed when scourged, spat 
upon, derided, mocked, and when nailed to the 
cross He could ask for His enemies, '' Father for- 
give them for they know not what they do, {Luke 
2j: jf) is to be 3^our peace. {Isaiah 26: j, 4. ; 
Sy: ig, 20, 21) 

2ND. ''My Love." The love of Jesus. {St. 
John i^: 10.) The word ' ' abide ' ' means to ' ' live. ' ' 
Verse 9th. The measure of the Father's love to the 
Son is the measure of the Father's love to us, and 
also the Son's love to us, and ought to be the meas- 
ure of our love one to another. A new command- 
ment ''I give unto you." {St, John zj.-j^.) If 



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any strife anywhere sin is at the bottom of it. Sin is 
disintegrating. Love is cohesive; you can't separate 
the Jesus love. When can we have this love ? In 
this world. {I John 4: ly.) When it is incarnated 
in us and crystalized into perfection we will be seek- 
ing to '' lift up the fallen and rescue the perishing." 
For one idea embraced Jesus in life and in death and 
that was the salvation of the race. {St. John j: 16.} 

3D. ' ' My Joy. ' ' {SL John 75.- 11. Psalvi 5.- 11.) 

The same joy that Jesus had in doing good and 
winning souls is to be your experience. 

He tells you that you may become so charmed 
with the life of Jesus ! and have such a holy ambi- 
tion to be endowed, imbued and infilled with the 
blessed, personal Holy Spirit, the abiding Comfort- 
er, that you will be "joyful," *' Have fulness of joy." 

When worldliness is displaced what a vacuum is 
thus opened for the inrushing Spirit. 

4TH. ''My Grace. " (// Cor. 12: p; 9: 8.) 

Unmerited favor. At a price less than the cost of 
a pin ' ' Without money and without price ' ' The 
grace of Jesus, that sustained him, the very same 
grace is to sustain yon . ' ' Thy shoes shall be iron. ' ' 
'* That means that if you have a stony path to walk 
over, God is not going to send you forth with paper- 
soled slippers on, but with shoes strong and endur- 
ing, equal to the need of the journey." 

5TH. " My Strength." {// Cor. i2:p, Isaiah 
26: J, 4.) The same strength that sustained Jesus is 
to ho^your strength — for back of this promise is the 



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omnipotent power of Jehovah. For God is " able." 
ill Cor, p:S.) 

Just as strong as the object on which you lean. 
(/saia/i 26: 4.) For all the holy purposes of your 
life you can have ' ' Everlasting strength ' ' to see 
you through. The price to be paid for this glorious 
experience; "Whose mind is stayed on thee." 
(/saza/i 26: J.) To have it this price must be paid. 
Nothing less. 

6th. ^'My Rest." {Heb. 4:5. Matt 11:28, 
Heb. 4:3.) The Christian's rest is attained by faith. 
And faith that appropriates the promises of God 
comes only through thorough conviction and per- 
fect obedience. For obedience is faith. {Gal. 2: 20.) 
Many have not entered into " His rest," therefore 
their lives are full of unrest, full of disappointment, 
full of failure, the sad song of their life is, ' ' all these 
things are against me." Beloved, enter into His 
rest and it shall h^ your rest. {Prov. i: jj.) 

7TH. ''MyGIvOry." {St. John I'/: 24,) 

What an unspeakable privilege ! To be joint 
heir (sharer) {Rom. 8: if) in His glory. This is 
the glorious result if you accept /z^/Zk, and enter 
into the experience of this prepared salvation, and 
yours will be " The Christian's Secret of a Happy 
Life," daily. 

Keys. 

' ' Key-note of Peter — Hope. 
"Key-note of Paul — Faith. 
"Key note of John — Love. 

"Faith, Hope and Charity (Love) — The key note 
to the whole of their teaching. ' ' 



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''Know." 
It occurs six times in I John 3. Blessed assurance. 
Fruit Chapter. 

Galatians 5th. This chapter tells us if we are 
bearing the right kind of fruit. 

Make the tree right and the fruit will soon be right. 

Important Bible Facts. 

Number of books in Old Testament 39 

Number of books in New Testament 27 

Total number of books in Bible 66 

Number of chapters in Old Testament 929 

Number of chapters in New Testament 260 

Total chapters 1,189 

Number of verses in Old Testament 23,214 

Number of verses in New Testament 7>959 

Total verses 31,1 73 

Number of words in Old Testament 592,439 

Number of words in New Testament 181,253 

Total words 773.692 

Number of letters in Old Testament 2,728,110 

Number of letters in New Testament 838,380 

Total letters 3,566,490 

The v^ord, Jehovah or Lord OQ.c\xrs 6,855 times ; the 
word Reverend but once, in the 9th verse of the 
1 1 ith Psalm. The middle chapter in the Bible, and 
the shortest one, is Psalm 117 ; the middle verse is 
Psalm 118:8; the middle book of the Old Testament 
is Proverbs ; the middle chapter is Job 29 ; middle 
verse, II Chron. 20: 17 ; the shortest verse, I Chron. 
1 : 25. The 9th verse of the 8th chapter of Esther is 
the longest verse. In the 107th Psalm four verses 



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are alike, the 8th, 15th, 21st and 31st. Each verse 
of the 136th Psalm ends alike. The 37th chapter of 
Isaiah and the 19th chapter of II Kings are almost 
alike, word for word. The word girl occurs but 
once in the Bible, and that in the 3rd verse of the 
3rd chapter of Joel. No names or words with more 
than six syllables are found in the Bible. 

The middle book of the New Testament is 
II Thess.; middle verse, Acts 17:17; the shortest 
verse, John 11: 35 ; Ezra 7: 21 has all the letters of 
the alphabet save F and J. 

Rkvisbd New Testament. 

{Computation in Rev. Rufus Wendell's " Student's 
Editio7i of the Revised Version y'' Albaiiy^ 1882.) 

No. of paragraphs 1,128 

No. of verses 7)943 

No. of words 179,914 

The total number of words belonging to each 
writer is as follows : 

Paul (fourteen books 50,649 1 Mark (one book). . . .14,854 



Luke (two books) . . 49,865 
John (five books). . . .34,236 
Matthew (one book) . 23,407 



Peter (two books) . . 3,966 
James (one book) . . 2,306 
Jude (one book) ... 631 



Translation of the English Bible. 

Wycliffe's translation from Vulgate was made 
about 1324-84. 

Tyndale's translation from the original, in 1525. 

Coverdale's translation from L<atin and German 
translations, in 1535. 



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The "Thomas Matthew" Bible, a compilation, 
by John Rogers, in 1537; Revised edition, by Rich- 
ard Tanner, in 1539. 

The Great Bible, called '' great" from the size of 
the page— 15x9 in.,— 1539. 

The Geneva Version, by English refugees, from 
the original Hebrew and Greek, in 1560. 

The Bishop's Bible, in 1568. 

Roman Catholic translations. New Testament, in 
1582; Old Testament, 1610. 

The King James Version, in 1611. 

Revised Version, New Testament, in 1881 ; Old 
Testament, in 1885. 

The Believer's Bank Note. 

There are hundreds of Bible verges that center 
around Philippians 4:19. It is the believer's bank 
note. There you see that God the Father hath 
made Jesus, who is the pledge of all that Infinite 
love could do or you can receive, the cashier of 
heaven's bank, and it never scales its deposits or 
goes back on its creditors. When in need of money 
endorse the texts, which is God's (the President's) 
note on demand with interest from date, then go to 
work, and it always comes. 

Take another promise. {Matt. y:y, 8.) Oh! 
how blessed! ''They that wholly trust Hhn^ find 
Him wholly true, ' ' 



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Character Building. 
Parental Responsibility; When? Why? How? 

Seed-time and Harvest. 

God (the great Architect) gives a perfect plan in 
detail (in the Bible) for character building, and 
tells the material to be used, so that it will stand the 
test of the temptations of life ; the dying honr and the 
fires of Wie Jitdgment. {Dent. 4: 9, 10, 40; j.-^p/ 
^.•5, (5, 7, c$', p; it: ij, 18, ig, 20, 21 . Psalm y8: i 
-p. Joslnia 24.- /^. Prov. 22.-6. Eph. 6: 4, II Tim, 
^.•75/7.-5. Psalm g2:i2, ij.i^. Isaiah ^4: ij.^ 
Do as God tells you and plant the children in His 
house while young. 

The covenant promise i^Dent. 7; g ; Acts 2: jp) is 
given only on condition of no un\io\Y ambition 
reigning in the hearts of parents {Matt. 6: jf) and 
their living in continual obedience to God. (// Cor, 
10:3.) 

Find out what God wants and expects of you, by 
^(2z7v searching His Word, and family and secret 
PRAYER, and never break faith with Him and He 
will never break faith with you {Isaiah 40:8), and 
the " Covenant pro^nise " shall be to you and yoiir 
child7xn {every one of the7n') ''forever.'' 

The Home is the Storm Center of God's 
Blessing or Curse. 

(JDetit II: 26, 2y, 28.) 



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A Mother. 

' ' A mother is more than a queen . ' ' 

To shape a child's life is the sweetest earthly 
task. (/ SaTu. ist chapter. II Tim. 3: 15) 

If you are a mother you will need to ask God 
daily for patience and wisdom. {Luke 21: ig. Rom. 
12: 12. II Peter 1:^-8.) Remember that children, 
if told of Christ, quick'y learn to love Him (I Sam, 
3: 4), and only as they love Him and keep His com- 
mandments are they safe. (// Tim. 1:5. Dent, it: 
21.) *' He shall carry the lambs in His bosom and 
gently lead those that are with young." [Isa. 40: 
II.) " May the Father in heaven guide thee and 
thine ! ' ' 

Four Cardinal Points. 

Take the four cardinal points which mark " The 
Christian's Secret of a Happy Life, " and make .h 111 
yours. 

ist cardinal point. Never doubt God's presence. 
{Heb. 13:5, 6.) 

2nd cardinal point. Never doubt God's Word. 
{Isaiah 40:8.) In order to inspire us w^ith confidence 
in His Word He has given us a mortgage on heaven 
and earth. {Matt. 5/ 18.) 

3rd cardinal point. Never doubt God's pity. 
(^Isaiah 63: p,) 

4th cardinal point. Never doubt God's power. 
{Psatm 37' 23, 31. II Cor. g: 8 .) If such promises 
as these are burned down into our hearts as with 



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characters of fire, they will put to flight the greatest 
army of doubts that ever assaulted a human soul. 

COURAGK. 

What is there to be afraid of in this world ? 

Just one thing, and that is sin. 
A good conscience will make good courage. 

Glean from this {Joshua ist chapter) three basic 
facts, viz : 

I St. All discouragement is of the devil. {Joshua 
i: 7. / Thess, 5.- 16, 77, 18.) Side tracking always 
switches one oflfthe main line. 

2nd. God cannot use a soul easily discouraged. 
{Joshua /.* 7.) Must keep on the main line oi obedi- 
ence to God. 

3rd. The only w^ay to have good courage is to 
obey God by living in, and feeding daily, on His 
Word. The ojily maiii line to a successful Christian 
life. {Joshua 1:8. St Johyi 8:ji, j^.) And to 
Watch, Pray and Trust. {Matt. 26:41. Psalm 
32:8 ; 34: y, 8.) 

The Ministry of the Holy Spirit. 

Who is the Holy SpirAf 

A person; the revealer of the Word. R. V., St. 
John 14: 26. 

When did His dejinite ministry begin f 

At Pentecost. R. V., Acts 2:4. Christ had His 
Pentecost. Before He began His public ministry the 
Holy Spirit came upon Him. Acts 10: 38. R. V., 
Luke 3: 22 ; 4: I, 14, 18. The Holy Spirit was in 



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Jesus prior to the descent of the dove. He was con- 
ceived of the Holy Spirit. But Jesus did not begin 
to teach or work until He had received the anoint- 
ing for service, and henceforth He lived and worked 
(Matt. 12:28), died (Heb. 9: 14), and rose from the 
dead (Rom. 1:4) by the power of the Spirit. 

How 7nay we receive power to work for a?id uoith 
Jesus? Acts 1:8, R. V. 

What hnportant question did Paul ask the disciples 
at Ephesus f Acts 19:2. 

What reply did they make f Acts 19:2. 

Did they receive the Holy Spirit? Acts 19: 6. 

As w^e go forth from the school of Jesus, like His 
disciples, may we too, be " filled with joy, and with 
the Holy Spirit " for service. Acts 13: 52. 

Topical Method of Bible Study. 

Gathering together all that is said in the Bible on 
a given topic. For instance: — with your Bible, 
paper and pencil, turn to your concordance (in the 
back of the Bible) and take the word " Love," and 
see what God says about it from Genesis to Revela- 
tion. Mark in your Bible, and copy the passages 
which strike you the most forcibly. 

You will readily see that if you are honest with 
God, honest with your soul, honest with the souls 
of those over whom you are exerting an influence, 
that you cannot sin so cheaply ; that you cannot re- 
tain ill-will or enmity in your heart toward any 
human being and be in harmony with the Infinite ; 
and be ''walking in the light," as set forth in 



BIBI.E MARKING AND READING. 3I 

I John I: J. Read the Word prayerfully . Again, take 
the words Humility, Prayer, Faith, Hope, Consecra- 
tion, Obedience, Work, etc., etc. The Bible is to be 
studied, not simply read, ' ' Open thou mine eyes 
that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.'' 
(^Psalm iiq: i8 .) It should be a spirit service. 

The student should study with the expectation of 
using any truth which may be discovered for the 
benefit of some fellow man. All God's gifts to His 
people are to be used in His service. Therefore, 
aim to get definite results. A great deal of time 
spent on the Bible is not very profitable, because the 
student does not really see exactly what he wants to 
accomplish. He has a general idea that he is to 
read and re-read, and in some way to get good irom 
reading ; but j ust exactly what to expect to know as 
a result of such reading he has not determined. 

How much of the reading of the Word is 
superficial. Why should the student be satisfied to 
take the gold leaf article when he can go down into 
the mines and get solid nuggets ? If the student is 
willing to learn, he will find the Bible is not a 
*'dry '' work, suitable for the melancholy only, and 
for ministers, but he will find it is full of life, and 
contains more of real information and pleasure than 
any other w^ork ever written. Again, take up a 
character. For instance: ''Caleb." Ask yourself 
the question, and find an answer in the Bible. 

1. Who was ''Caleb"? 

2. Why is he so prominently mentioned in the 
Word ? 



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3. What excellencies are there in His life for me 
to imitate ? 

4. What evils for me to reject ? 

5. That life was written for me ; and God wants 
me to get the benefit of its spiritual sympathy of 
good and to reject the errors, if such there be. 
Twice it is said of him, '' He hath wholly followed 
the Lord his God." (^Joshua 14.: p, z^.) 
These are human estimates, but in Num, 14: 24. 
God gives His estimate of Caleb's life. Right in the 
center of this verse you will find \h^ golden key to un- 
lock the store -house of heaven. You must get this key 
or you will 7iever find the " Christian's Secret of a 
Happy Life. ' ' The ^ ' key " is ' 'fully ' ' or ''wholly. ' ' 
Unless you follow the Lord " wholly,'' in obedience, 
you will never get the sweet experience ('' holy ") 
in your life. {Heb, 12: 14.) " Follow peace with 
all men, and holiness, without which no man shall 
see the Lord." 

Again, study each book as a whole. For instance: 
take Mark as the very best, most vivid in its descrip- 
tion and as keeping the chronological order. 

It possible read it through at one sitting. Read 
all the other Gospels in the same way. See if you 
do not get a view of the life of Christ in its entirety 
from Bethlehem to the Ascension as you have never 
had before. See if there are any portions of the 
J>)rd's life which Mark omits and which are found 
in the other Gospels, etc., etc. 

Take the various characters and, subjects in the 
^^ Improved New Bible Cards,'' (published by L. U. 



BIBI.E MARKING AND READING. 33 

Snead & Sons) and read the verses and chapters 
referred to on each card, and when you have com- 
mitted the 1 ,000 statements and answers to memory, 
your increased efficiency as a Bible student would 
well repay you for the effort. 

'' In That Day." 

There are three verses in St. John which begin 
with the words: ''In that day.'' [John i4.\2o.) 
*■' I?i that day " when the Holy Spirit shines through 
every avenue of the heart, and all darkness is gone, 
ye shall know three glorious truths: (i.) " That I 
am in my Father." (2 ) ''That ye are in me." 
A charmed circle. {Psalm J4.: y .) (3.) ''linyou. " 
*' And t?i that day ( St. John 16: 2j) ye shall ask me 
nothing." Before the disciples received the Holy 
Spirit they kept asking questions, but when the 
received Him (the Revealer, Illuminator), truth 
shone in their hearts. {St. John 14.: 26; 16: ij, z/.) 
A marvelous intuition. '' Li that day [St. Johji 16: 
26) ye shall ask in my name." '* Name" stands 
for " nature." '' I in 3^ou and you in me." " The 
nature of Jesus asks the Father through us and the 
blessing comes, for He and Jesus are one." Notice 
the result of receiving the Holy Spirit as the fourth 
work of the Spirit of God. " He (the Spirit) shall 
bear witfiess of me, and ye shall bear witness. " {St, 
John i^: 26, ^7.) When ? Where ? '' But ye shall 
receive power, when the Holy Ghost is come upon 
you : and ye shall be 7ny witnesses b th in Jerusalem 
and in all Judaea and Samaria," that is the home 



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missionary work, " and unto the uttermost parts of 
the earth" {Acts i: S), this takes in the foreign field. 
Beloved, Jesus died for the whole world, and w^heu 
you let His life reign in you by the power of the 
Holy Spirit you wi/l be alive to, and closely identi- 
fied with Him, in the evangelization of the world. 

Mansions. 

This word in the original is used but twice in the 
Bible. In St. John 14: 2, '' mansion," or abiding- 
place (R. v., marg.) with God, is used in the 23rd 
verse ('' abode," or '' mansion ") and means God's 
*' mansion " in the spirit of the believer, or abiding- 
place wuth us. Jesus has gone to prepare a " man- 
sion " for a prepared people. And in order to fit us 
for the " heavenly mansion " He comes in the per- 
son of the Holy Spirit to '* abide," or make His 
'' mansion " in us. Getting us ready to move into 
the '' upper-mansion." 

Beloved, is your '' mansion " being cleaned , fitted 
up under the guidance of the Holy Spirit? Don't 
try to keep some little chamber locked up and 
expect to have this "mansion" prepared. Throw 
wide open every door and window-pane of your 
heart and let the search light from the "Sun of 
Righteousness" penetrate every avenue of j^our 
soul. When Jesus through the Spirit is given the 
right of way what a soul, house cleaning time there 
is. " Then I will sprinkle clean water upon you, 
and ye shall be clean : from all yowx filthincss^ and 
fom all your idols, will I cleanse you. " (Ezek^ 36 : 



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25.) (Read. II Cor. 6: i6, 17, 18, and II Cor. 7: i.) 
Dear child, let all the worldly trappings go which 
have fettered your soul so long, and hear the sweet 
words from the lips of Jesus, '' Now ye are clean 
through the word which I have spoken unto you.'* 
(St. John 15:3.) 

"Abide " (verse 4th) (live) in Me, and I in you. 
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it 
abide (live) in the vine ; no more can ye except ye 
abide in Me." Spiritual mathematics. Two and 
two make four with God. Don't think you can 
give Him one fourth or two-fourths or three-fourths 
of your life and that He wnll excuse you on the 
other one-fourth. (Read I Thess. 5: 23, 24.) "Here- 
in is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruii; 
so,'' ah ! that puts us on a higher plane of divine 
enlightenment, communion and fellowship with 
Jesus. " So, shall ye be my disciples.'* (St. 
John 15:8.) Then Jesus tells us the glad result 
as He adds up the blessed experience and assurance 
of these previous verses (viz.: conversion, cleans- 
ing, abiding, fruit- bearing) which He wants each 
child of His to have while He prepares this " man- 
sion." ''These things have I spoken unto you^ 
that my Joy might remain in you, and that your joy 
might h^fuli:' (St. John 15: 11.) 

How TO Succeed. 

Let the motto of your life be : '* Have faith in 
God." (Mark 11:22.) The margin says: " Have 
the faith of God." '* Reckon on God's faith to 



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you." — Hudson lay lor. " He is faithful who bath 
promised." (Heb. ii: ir. Psalm 89:33; 92:2.) 
How to succeed ? We believe it is an unfailing an- 
swer to say, according as they honor and obey the 
teachings of the Bible. (Psalm 32: 8.) 

Our observation confirms us in the belief that the 
attitude of the heart toward God determines the 
success of life of each individual more than all other 
qualifications put together. How many have started 
out wnth fair prospects, but alas ! the failure and 
wreckage all along the stream of time because they 
had not accepted the Word of God fully as the guide 
and rule of their lives. ''Them that honor Me, 
I will honor saith the Lord." (I Sam. 2:30.) 
(Prov. 3: 5, 6. Psalm 34: 11, 12; 37: 3, 4, 5, 6.) 
Can't y^^7 when we irholly odey God. Impossible. 
(Num. 14: 24.) (Joshua i: 7, 8.) 

Helps to Bible Study. 

There are llirce books that eveyy Christian ought to 
have if he cannot have but three. The first is a 
Bible — one with good, plain print that you can 
easily read, not so good that you are afraid to mark 
it. Get your children also, a good, well-bound 
Bible; large type, that will be a pleasure, and not 
a task-service to read. Such a Bible for each child 
as soon as they learn to read is one, if not the best in- 
vestment you can possibly make for your family. 
Better than many dollars invested in furniture, or 
bric-a-brac without the Bible. As they grow older 



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and have marked it, they won't want to give up the 
one they have been used to reading in, after it has 
come to seem like a sort of life long companion. 
Let us urge upon you to get each member of the 
family a choice Bible and mark it carefully. 

To cherish a love for God's book is the most im- 
portant work a parent or teacher has to do next to the 
conversion of souls. The growing lack of the age is a 
neglect of the Bible in the hands of each child in the 
home2inA Sunday-school . Music, papers, magazines, 
pleasure and many other things are crowding out 
the Word of God from daily use in the home circle. 
These things are legitimate enough in their way — 
but if the devil can get Shakespeare or anything else 
substituted, or memorized instead of the Bible he 
has gained the day. In the Sunday-school, lesson 
quarterlieSj^lesson leaves and helps are displacing 
the Bible. These are to be used in the home, but 
not in the Sunday-school. May the day soon come 
when The Bibi.k, 

** A fountain ever springing, 

Where the wearied may repair, 
The heavy burden bringing, 

Of sin and of despair. 
A hive of honeyed treasure. 

Distilled from Kden's bowers. 
Where heaven-born hope with pleasure 

May feed in wintry hours. 

Drink for the soul that's trusting, 

Comfort for those that fear. 
Balm for the heart that's bursting, 

*May all be gathered here;" 



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will be seen in the hands of every teacher and scholar 
instead of lesson helps. 

The next book to get is ' ' Cruden's Concordance. ' ' 
You cannot get on very well in Bible study without 
that. There is another book printed in this country 
by the American Tract Society called ' ' Bible Text- 
Book . " It was brought out first in London . These 
books will be a wonderful help to you in studying 
the Word of God. As an additional help the 
'' Improved New Bible Cards, The Bible Student's 
Cyclopedia," will be a great blessing. {See notice in 
back of book.) We furnish these books at special 
wholesale rates to our patrons. 

Woman as Man's Equai. in AlTv Christian 
Privileges. 

Theologians have overlooked the fact that God's 
curses are two-fold, and rest on man and woman equal- 
ly. If she was cursed in that her husband ruled over 
her, he was cursed in so ruling, and had been through 
the centuries. Man's greatest pride is in his sons, 
but the stream cannot rise higher than its fountain ; 
the mother of our race cannot with impunity be 
'trodden under foot. The man who rules her is 
cursed in his character and his offspring. He is un- 
speakably degraded by the desire to rule her; for 
such desire is the quintessence of selfishness and 
pride. A free, large, generous spirit in man in- 
stinctively revolts from the degradation of the word 
** obey " applied to the one nearest, dearest and best 



BIBI,E MARKING AND RKADING. 39 

of all the world to him. Christ says in explanation 
of Moses' act in permitting the man by a bill of 
divorcement to dismiss his wife: '' But from the be- 
ginning it was not so, {Matt, ig: j-8 .) And Christ 
came to restore the years that the caterpillar and 
palmer worm had eaten. In Christ the curses that 
have alike debased husband and wife are cancelled ; 
the new heaven and the new earth, {Isa. 66: 22) re- 
vealed wherein dwelleth righteousness, justice, and 
the inwrought, out wrought Golden Rule. 

' ' You wish to teach our women to read, do you?" 
scornfully said an official of the Hindoos to a mis- 
sionary from America, and added, " Next you will 
seek permission to teach our cows! " But what 
good has come to the Hindoo by his supreme selfish- 
ness toward mother and sister, daughter and wife ? 
He has not progressed one inch in thousands of 
years except as men who look upon women as their 
equals have placed in his unskilled hands the inven- 
tions of Occidental civilization and taught him our 
ideas of literature and law, of art and commerce. He 
has not risen one hair in the scale of being, except 
as our missionaries have brought to him that gospel 
which says, '' There shall be no more curse, for the 
former things are passed away," {Rev. 21:4.), and 
which restores the joint headship set forth in the 
divine wo ds : '' Let us make man in our image 
after our likeness and let them have dominion." 
{Gen. i: 26 I Peter j: 7.) 

A theologian of classical attainments, sends me 
the following admirable exegesis : 



40 BIBLE MARKING AND READING. 

"The term * wifely subjection,' as used in the New 
Testament, has been a stumbling block to many. Let it be 
noticed that St. Paul does not direct wives to obey their 
husbands, as he expressly commands children to obey their 
parents, in the Word. The objectional word ''obey" is 
very properly expunged from the American marriage 
service, as authorized by the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
Paul's words are: ' Be in subjection to your own husbands 
in all things.' {Eph. §: 24.) That is when God and conscience 
do not forbid. {CoL 3: 18.) Paul's words rendered 'sub- 
jection,' John Wesley says means ' having a yielding spirit.* 
But let it be also observed that the chief apostle writes what 
many annotators virtually overlook : ' Subjecting yourselves 
one to another.' {I Peter ^: ^.) Here Paul teaches husband- 
ly subjection, as in the first passage named he teaches wifely. 
Annotators often follow one another like sheep, vainly at- 
tempting to make Paul's words harmonize with their own 
earnest teachings and the echoes of antiquity. Notice : 
the apostle expressly teaches mutual subjection as a set-off 
to wifely subjection. His words are * one to another.' 
(/ Peter j.'j.) Thus husbands are here expressly taught 
subjection, that is, to have a yielding spirit: husband is 
'one,' wife is 'another'; and Paul's word's are * one to 
another.' There is not only no sex in religion, but St. Paul 
expressly teaches (see revised version) * there can be no 
male or female.' {Gal. 3: 28.) Just as the ocean's incom- 
ing tide makes little pools and rivulets one full ^ smooth sea, 
so Christianity will swallow up caste and sex. ' Ye are all 
one man in Christ Jesus. {Gal. 3: 28.) (See revised version.) 
These words divinely teach perfect equality in all Christian 
privileges." 

Sidney Lanier has put the subject well : 
" If men loved larger, larger were our lives, 
And wooed they nobler, won they nobler wives." 

Miss Frances E. Willard. 

President World's IV. C, T. U. 



BIBIvE MARKING AND RKADING. 4I 



The Second Coming. 

The second coming of Christ is literal, personal 
and imminent. He went away as a person. He 
will return as such. (John 14:3; Acts i:ir; 

I Thess. 4: 16.) We are commanded to watch and 
wait for this. (I Thess. 5: 1-6.) Careful inspection 
and study of the Word reveals two distinct parts in 
the Second Advent. 

The Rapture: or, the Lord's coming for His 
people, which will be secret, sudden and impending. 
It will also be invisible and instantaneous. (Matt. 
24:40, 41, 42 ; Rev. 16: 15.) 

The Revelatio7i : or, His coming with His saints. 

This will be visible and glorious.^ (Col. 3:4; 

II Thess. 1:7; I Thess. 4: 16, 17, 18. 

A Great Physician. 

**/ am the Lord that healeth thee.'*^ — Esc. 1^:26, 

Physical life was maintained in Eden by the 
* ' Tree of Life, ' '—a type of Christ. 

This was lost through the fall (Gen. 3: 23), but 
restored through Christ's atonement, redemption. 
(Matt. 8: 17.) 

Promise of physical healing given on condition of 
their rightness and obedience. (Ex. 15: 25, 26.) 

In Isaiah 53: 4, 5, we find the strongest point for 
this doctrine. 

The quickening power of the Holy Spirit in our 

*See notice of" Jesus is Coming," in back of book. This grand work 
should be in the hands of all who love our Lord's appearing. 



42 BIBI.E MARKING AND READING. 



bodies. (Rom. 8: ii; I Cor. 6: 19, 20.) Physical 
life by our union with the risen Lord. (I Cor. 6:15; 
II Cor. 4: 10, 11; Eph. 5: 30.) 

The Bible and Childhood. 

1. Man's anxious question about every child. 

Luke 1:61. 

2. God's interest in childhood. 

Gen. 21:17; Psalm 147:13; Prov. 8:17. 

3. God's care for His little ones. 

Deut. 7:4; Psalm 103:13; Isaiah 40:11; 

Mai. 3: 7; Matt. 7: 11. 

4. God saving men by homefuls. 

Gen. 7: i; 19: 16; Josh. 24: 15; Acts 16: 3I-33- 

5. Parents as God-appointed teachers. 

Deut. 6: 4-7; Psalm 78: 5-7. 

6. Children to be early saved. 

Matt. 19: 14; IlChron. 34:3; I Sam. 3: 1-19. 

Grace. 

1. Its source. 

John 1 : 14-17; Rom. v: 15; I Cor. 1:3, 4. 

2. All grace comes from God. 

I Peter 5: 10. 

3. To whom does He offer grace ? 

Matt. 21:31; Hosea 13:9. John 8: 4-12. 

4. Not of works. 

Eph. 2:8. 9; II Tim. 1:9; Rom. 11:6. 

5. It bringeth salvation. 

Titus 2: 11-14. 

6. We are justified freely by His grace. 

Titus 3: 7; Rom. 3:24. 



BIBI.P: MARKING AND READING. 43 

7. Sin reigned unto death, but grace unto life 
eternal. Rom. 5: 20, 21; 6: i, 2. 

8. We are not under law, but under grace. 

Rom. 6: 14, 15. 

9. The difference between the law and grace. 

Deut. 21: 18; Luke 15: 12-24. 

10. How are we to get it ? 

Heb. 4: 16. 

1 1 . His grace sufficient at all times. 

II Cor. 9: 8; 12:9. 

12. Who have it more freely ? 

Eph. 6: 24; James 4: 6. 

13. We are to sing with grace in our hearts. 

Col. 3: 16. 

14. What is falling from grace ? 

Gal. 5: 1-5. 

15. Difference between government and grace. 
(No texts; but retributive dealings with Lot, 
Jacob, David, brought out, as contrasted 
with the Prodigal Son, and the surpassing 
love revealed in the gospel.) 

16. Last vrords of Peter and John. 

II Peter 3: 18; Rev. 22: 21. 
D. L. Moody. 

Sunday- School Teachers' Decaloguk. 

BY REV. E. O. HAVEX, D.D. LL D. 

1. Pray for inspiration, wisdom and patience. 

II Tim. 2: 24; James i: 5. 

2. Have faith in your convictions. 

-Mark 11: 22; John 14: i; Heb. 11: 32, 33. 



44 BIBI^K MARKING AND READING. 



3. Respect your pupils. 

Luke 11: 11; Matt. 10:29, 31. 

4. Understand your own purpose. 

Prov. 17: 24; Luke 6: 39. 

5. Obtain the attention and affection of your 
pupils. Matt. 7: 6, 9, 10; I Thess. 2:7, 8. 

6. Express thought precisely; illustrate freely. 

I Cor. 14: 19; Matt. 13: 34. 

7. Teach arrangement and classification. 

II Tim. 2: 15; Eccles. 3: i, 11. 

8. Christ's test; fruit. 

Matt. 7: 16-20. 

9. Review frequently. 

Isaiah 28: 10. 
10. Expect great results. 

Eccles. 11: 1 ; Matt. 13:8. 
** Thou, therefore, which teachest another, teach- 
est thou not thyself? " 

Five Elements of Success in Teaching. 

BY REV. RICHARD NEWTON, D.D. 

1. A real, heartfelt, glowing love for children. 

2. A habit of forming a clear and distinct idea 
of the subject. 

3. A simple, natural and well-defined plan. 

4. Simplicity of language and directness of illus- 
tration. 

5. Earnest piety. 



BIBI.E MARKING AND READING. 45 

For Preachers and Teachers. 

4^='TO BE COPIED AND HUNG ON YOUR DESK. 

PREPARATION. 

** Proving, painting, persuading.'* 

**I am resolved to spare no pains, nor toil, nor time in 
careful preparaiio7ty in making my descriptions graphic ^ my 
siaiesments lucid^ my appeals pathetic^ in filling my discourse 
in fact with what would both strike and stick. 

' ' Let them not put me off with admiration ; its 
their salvation I want." — Guthrie. 

The Bible and its Students. 

Search the Scriptures. John 5: 39. John 8: 31, 32. 
Earnestly. Josh. 1:8. Psa. 119: 18. 
Anxiously, John 20: 31. Psa. 119:9. 
Regularly. Acts 17:11. Psa. 1:2. 
Carefully, Luke 24: 27. II Tim. 3: 16, 17. 
Humbly. Luke 24: 45. James 1:2. 

'' When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any 
other book, never think how you read, but what you 
read . ' ' — Kent ble . 

* • He should not merely prepare his sermon ; 
he should also prepare himself. ' ' — Dr. Parker, 

After the Sermon or Lesson. 

*' He may not have lingually stumbled. His 
breaking down may not have been toward earth, 
but toward heaven. ' ' — Dr. Parker, 



46 BIBLE MARKING AND READING. 

What Can I Do? 

'* I expect to pass through this life but once ; if, 
therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any 
good thing I can do to my fellow human beings, 
let me do it now ; let me not defer or neglect it, for 
I shall not pass this way again." 

Love. 

* ' The fruit of the Spirit in terms of love are : 
(Gal. 5:22, 23.) 

Joy is love exulting. 
Peace is love in repose. 
Longsuffering is love untiring. 
Gentleness is love enduring. 
Goodness is love in action. 
Faith is love on the battlefield. 
Meekness is love under discipline. 
Temperance is love in training." — Moody, 

Sins. 

Saved from sin. — Matt. 1:21. 

Saved from the penalty of sin. — II Peter 2: 9. 

Saved from the power of sin. — Rom. 6: 7. 

Saved from Satan. — Acts 26: 18. 

Saved from the world. — Gal. i: 4. 

Saved from the law. — Rom. 10: 4. 

Saved from seIvF. — Gal. 2: 20. 

Who? 

God will come and save you. — Isa. 35: 4. 

Rejoice in the Lord. — Phil. 3: i. 



BIBI^IC MARKING AND READING. 47 

Word Analysis of the Books of the Bible. 

Mark the books, for instance : at the beginning of 
Genesis, *' Book of Beginnings.'' 

Over Exodus write '' Book of Redemption," and 
so on until a/l the books are marked as follows : 

Leviticus Priesthood. 

Numbers Wandering. 

Deuteronomy Obedience. 

Joshua Warfare. 

Judges Failure. 

Ruth Re -possession. 

I and II Samuel Kingdom. 

I and II Kings Kingdom. 

I and II Chronicles Royal Power. 

Ezra Temple Rebuilt. 

Nehemiah- Wall Rebuilt. 

Esther Providence. 

Job - Trial. 

Psalm-- Praise. 

Proverbs Instruction. 

Ecclesiastes . Experience. 

Song of Solomon Song of Love. 

Isaiah The Messiah. 

Jeremiah Expostulation. 

Lamentations Mourning. 

Ezekiel Judgments. 

Daniel- Times of Gentiles. 

Hosea Backsliding. 

Joel Desolation. 



48 ' BIBI,E MARKING AND READING. 

Amos Punishment. 

Obadiah Edom. 

Jonah Nineveh. 

Micah Controversy. 

Nahum Full End. 

Habakkuk Judgment. 

Zephaniah Lord's Anger. 

Haggai Lord's House. 

Zechariah Judgment and Glories. 

Malachi Robbery. 

New Testament. 

Matthew Kingship. 

Mark Service. 

lyuke Son of Man. 

John Son of God. 

Acts Witnessing. 

Romans Justification . 

I Corinthians Cnurch Order. 

II Corinthians Ministry. 

Galatians Law and Grace. 

Ephesians Together with Christ. 

Philippians Christian Experience. 

Colossians Complete. 

I Thessalonians Christ's Return for His Saints. 

II Thessalonians -Christ's Return with His Saints. 

I Timothy Behavior. 

II Timothy The Scriptures. 

Titus Sound Doctrine. 

Philemon Intercession . 

Hebrews Atonement. 



THE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE. 49 

James Faith aud Works. 

I Peter Rejoice in Trial. 

II Peter Be Mindful. 

I John Assurance. 

II John Love. 

III John Hospitality. 

Jude Apostasy. 

Revelation Revelation. 



The Books of the Bible. 

The original manuscript was seen on the walls of a 
Swiss inn, and translated by an American lady. 
Commit them to memory. 

OLD TESTAMENT. 

In Genesis the world was made by God's creative hand ; 
In Exodus the Hebrews marched to gain the promised land ; 
Leviticus contains the Law, — holy and just and good ; 
Numbers records the tribes enrolled all sons of Abraham's 

blood ; 
Moses, in Deuteronomy, recounts God's mighty deeds ; 
Brave Josliua into Canaan's land the host of Israel leads ; 
In Judges their rebellion oft provokes the Lord to smite ; 
But Ruth records the faith of one well-pleasing in His sight ; 
In First and Second Samuel of Jesse's son we read ; 
Ten tribes in First and Second Kings revolted from his 

seed ; 
In First and Second Chronicles see Judah captive made ; 
But Ezra leads a remnant back by princely Cyrus* aid ; 
The city walls of Zion Nehemiah builds again ; 
While Esther saves her people from plots of wicked men ; 
In Job we read how faith will live beneath affliction's rod, 
And David's Psalms are precious songs to every child of 

God; 



50 THE BOOKS OF THE BIBI^E. 

The Proverbs like a goodly string of choicest pearls appear ; 
Ecclesiastes teaches man how vain are all things here ; 
The mystic Song of Solomon exalts sweet Sharon's Rose, 
While Christ the Saviour and the King, the ** rapt Isaiah " 

shows ; 
The warning Jeremiah apostate Israel scorns ; 
His plaintive Lamentations their awful downfall mourns ; 
Ezekiel tells in wondrous \/ords of dazzling mysteries, 
While kings and empires yet to come Daniel in visions 

sees ; 
Of judgment and mercy Hosea loves to tell ; 
Joel describes the blessed days when God with man shall 

dwell ; 
Among Tekoa's herdsmen Amos received his call ; 
While Obadiah prophesies of Edom's final fall ; 
Jonah enshrines a wondrous type of Christ our risen Lord ; 
Micah pronounces Judah lost — lost, but again restored ; 
Nahum declares on Nineveh just judgment shall be poured ; 
A view of Chaldea's coming doom Habakkuk's visions 

give; 
Next Zephaniah warns the Jews to turn, repent and live ; 
Haggai wrote to those who saw the temple built again, 
And Zechariah prophesies of Christ's triumphant reign ; 
Malachi was the last who touched the high prophetic chord ; 
Its final notes sublimely show the coming of the Lord. 

NEW TESTAMENT. 

Matthew and Mark and Luke and John the Holy Gospels 

wrote ; 
Describing how the Savior died ; His life and all He taught ; 
Acts proves how God the Apostles owned with signs in 

every place ; 
St. Paul in Romans teaches us how man is saved by grace ; 
The apostle in Corinthians instructs, exhorts, reproves ; 
Galatians shows that faith in Christ alone the Father loves ; 
Ephesians and Philippians tell what Christians ought to be ; 



CHAPTERS OF PURE GOI.D. 51 

Colossians bids us live to God and for eternity ; 

In Thessalonians we are taught the Lord will come from 

heaven ; 
In Timothy and Titus a bishop's rule is given ; 
Philemon marks a Christian's love which only Christians 

know ; 
Hebrews reveals the Gospel prefigured by the law , 
James teaches without holiness faith is but vain and dead ; 
St Peter points the narrow way in which the saints are led ; 
John in his three Epistles, on love delights to dwell ; 
St. Jude gives awful warning of judgment, wrath and hell ; 
The Revelation prophesies of that tremendous day 
When Christ, and Christ alone, will be the trembling sinner's 

stay. 



Chapters of Pure Goi.d. 

Named and selected by C. H. Yatman, M. S. Rees and L. 
U. Snead. 

Abiding chapter , . John 15. 

Abraham chapter Romans 4. 

Abraham and Isaac chapter Genesis 22. 

Admonition chapter Hebrews 13. 

Addition chapter II Peter i. 

Agrippa chapter Acts 26. 

Anointing chapter Kxodus 30. 

Apostles' chapter Acts 5. 

A Personal Search chapter Psalm 139. 

Ascension chapter Acts i. 

Atonement chapter * Hebrews 9. 

Backsliders' chapter Jeremiah 3. 

Baptism chapter . Matthew 3. 

Beautiful Gate chapter Acts 3. 

Beginning chapter John i. 

Berea and Athens chapter Acts 17. 

Betrayal and Denial chapter Matthew 26. 



52 CHAPTERS OF PURE GOLD. 

Believers* Bank Note chapter Philippians 4. 

Blessed chapter Matthew 5. 

Blessed Assurance chapter. . . I John 5. 

Blessing chapter Deuteronomy 28. 

Blessed Know chapter I John 3. 

Boundless chapter Ephesians 3. 

Bible Psalm Psalm 119 

Born Blind chapter John 9, 

Breid chapter John 6. 

Business Men's chapter Proverbs 8. 

Character chapter Job 29. 

Chastening chapter Hebrews 12. 

Christian's chapter I Peter 2. 

Christian's Psalm Psalm 15. 

Church chapter Isaiah 60. 

Circumcision chapter Acts 15. 

Come chapter Revelation 22. 

Comforting chapter John 14. 

Commandment chapter Exodus 20. 

Commission chapter Matthew 28. 

Confidence Psalm Psalm 23. 

Conqueror's chapter Luke 4. 

Contrast chapter Luke 17. 

Convert's chapter Isaiah 12. 

Corinth chapter Acts 18. 

Christ's Childhood chapter Luke 2. 

Cornelius chapter Acts 10. 

Courage chapter Joshua i. 

Disciples' chapter Luke 12. 

Deacons' chapter Acts 6. 

Defence chapter Acts 22. 

Deliverance Psalm Psalm 18. 

Deliverance chapter Exodus 15. 

Duty chapters Ezekiel 33 and Romans 12. 

Elders chapter Acts 20. 

Elijah chapter I Kings 18. 

Ephesus chapter Acts 19. 



CHAPTERS OF PURE GOI.D. 53 



Faith chapter Hebrews 11. 

Feast of Tabernacles chapter John 7. 

Felix chapter Acts 24. 

Festus chapter Acts 25. 

Fear Not chapter Isaiah 41. 

Fiery Furnace chapter Daniel 3. 

First Miracle chapter John 2. 

Fisherman's chapter Lukes. 

Foundation chapter I Corinthians 3. 

Fool's chapter Proverbs 26. 

Fast chapter Isaiah 5S. 

Free chapter John 8. 

Fruit chapter , Galatians 5. 

Gentiles chapter _ Acts 11. 

Gideon chapter Judges 7. 

Grace chapter Ephesians 2. 

Gift chapter I Corinthians 12. 

Glorious Deliverance chapter Romans 8. 

Good Night Psalm Psalm 121. 

Gospel Etiquette chapter Luke 14. 

Great Psalm Psalm 119. 

Greeting chapter Romans 16. 

Harlot's chapter Proverbs 7. 

Heaven chapter Revelation 21. 

Herod chapter Acts 12. 

Household chapter Colossians 3. 

Humility chapter Luke 18. 

Holy (Spirit) Ghost chapters. . . Joel 2 and Acts i and 2. 

Hypocrite chapter Matthew 23. 

I Will chapter Hosea 2. 

Intemperance chapter Proverbs 23. 

Invitation chapter Isaiah 55. 

John the Baptist chapter Luke 3. 

Judgment chapter Romans 14. 

Justification chapter Romans 5. 

Lame Man's chapter Acts 3. 

Last Supper chapter John 13. 



54 CHAPTERS OF PURE GOI^D. 

Law chapter Romans 7. 

Lazarus chapter John 11. 

Life chapter Luke 7. 

Living Water chapter John 4, 

Lion's Den chapter . Daniel 6. 

Love chapters I Corinthians 13 and I John 4. 

Lost and Found chapter .Luke 15. 

Love Feast chapter John 21. 

Lystra chapter Acts 14. 

Macedonia chapter Acts 16. 

Marvelous chapter Luke 9. 

Matrimony chapter Ephesians 5. 

Mercy Psalm Psalm 136. 

Millennium chapter Revelation 20. 

Ministers' chapter Ezekiel 34. 

Moralists' Psalm Psalm 14. 

Moses Psalm Psalm 90. 

Mothers' chapter Judges 13. 

Naaman chapter II Kings 5. 

Nativity chapter Luke 2. 

New Birth chapter John 3. 

Our Father chapter Luke 11. 

Offering chapter Numbers 15. 

Overcome and New Name chapters. . Revelation 2 and 3. 

Passover chapter Exodus 12. 

Paul chapter Acts 21. 

Pentecost chapter Acts 2. 

Personal chapter. Galatians 6. 

Peter and John chapter Acts 4. 

Philip chapter Acts 8. 

Pilate's chapter Matthew27. 

Praise Psalm Psalm 103. 

Prayer chapter John 17. 

Prayer and Woes chapter Luke 11. 

Parents' chapters . Deuteromony 6 and 11 ; Psalm 78: 1-9. 
Read the 29th verse of the 5th chapter of Deuteromony as a 
prelude to the 6th chapter. 



CHAPTERS OF PQRK GOI,D. 55 

Preacher's chapter Isaiah 61. 

Prison chapter Acts 23. 

Prodigal's Psalm Psalm 51. 

Professor's chapter Luke 12. 

Promise chapter John 16. 

Prophecy chapters Luke i and John 12. 

Proof of Messiahship chapter John 5. 

Perfect Love verses I John i: 7 ; 4: 17, 18. 

Question chapter Luke 20. 

Refuge Psalm Psalm 46, 

Rest chapter Hebrews 4. 

Resurrection chapter I Corinthians 15. 

Repentance chapter Luke 13. 

Responsibility chapter Matthew 25. 

Redemption chapters John 10 and Luke 23. 

Revival chapters Ezekiel 37 and Joel 2. 

Rich Man's chapter Luke 16, 

Rock chapter Deuteromony 32. 

Rome chapter Acts 28. 

Samson's chapter Judges 15. 

Saul and Tarsus chapter Acts 9. 

Salvation chapter Romans 10. 

Savior's chapter Matthew 15. 

Saloon Keeper's Psalm Psalm 10. 

Sin and Holiness chapter Romans 6. 

Soul-Saving Psalm Psalm 126. 

Soldier's chapter Ephesians 6. 

Sad chapters Luke 22 and John 18. 

Sinner's chapter Luke 19. 

Shepherd's chapter John 10. 

Sower's chapter Luke 8. 

Service chapter Luke 10. 

Scorn er's chapter Proverbs i. 

Sufferer's chapter Isaiah 53. 

Suffer Little Children chapter Luke 18. 

Saul and Barnabas chapter Acts 13, 

Shipwreck chapter Acts 27. 



56 CHAPTERS OF PURE GOI^D. 

Separation chapter II Corinthians 6. 

Safety Psalm Psalm 91. 

Stephen chapter Acts 7. 

True Preaching chapter I Corinthians 2. 

" To-day *' chapter Hebrews 3. 

Traveler's Psalm Psalm 121. 

Tithes (tenth) chapter Malachi 3. 

Transfiguration chapter Mark 9. 

Tabernacle Psalm Psalm 84. 

The New Commandment chapter. . . .St. John 13: 34, 35. 

Tonic Psalm Psalm 27. 

Teacher's chapter Luke 6. 

Victorious chapter Luke 24. 

Victory chapter John 20. 

Watcher's chapter Luke 21. 

Work chapter James 2. 

Workers' chapter I Corinthians i. 

Wisdom chapter Proverbs 3. 

Wise Man's chapter Proverbs 15. 

Wives' chapter Proverbs 31. 

Zaccheus chapter Luke 19. 



CHRIST OUR PASSOVER. 57 

Christ Our Passover. 

Mark 14: 12-26, 

The Passover. Old Testament institutions are not 
for our imitation, but for our instruction. *'They 
sacrificed the Passover . " V . 1 2 , Marg . ' ' Christ our 
Passover is sacrificed for us." I Cor. 5: 7, 8. The 
Lord's supper commemorates the suffering and death 
of the Paschal Lamb. As in the Passover they ate the 
lamb, so at the communion table we feed upon Christ 
in our hearts by faith with thanksgiving. Death was 
the penalty for neglect of the feast of the Passover. 
Spiritual death will be the portion of those who refuse 
Christ as their Passover. As the blood must be 
sprinkled to secure safety , so the blood of Christ must 
be applied to our hearts. Like Israel we are saved 
by the blood, assured by the Word, separated from 
the world by putting away evil, satisfied by feasting 
upon the Lamb. Ex. 12: 12-14, 20. Christ becomes 
our Passover from, 

1. Death to life. John 5: 24 ; 20:31. Rom. 6 : 
23; 8:2. 

2. Darkness to light. John 8:12; 12: 46. II Cor. 
4:6. 

3. Bondage to freedom. John 8:32, 2>^, 

4. Law to grace. John i: 16, 17. Rom. 6:14. 

5. Weakness to strength. Phil. 4: 13. Col. i: 11. 

6. Sin to holiness. Rom. 3:25, 26, Marg.; 6: 
22. Eph. 4: 22-24. 

7. Weariness to rest. Matt. 1 1: 28-30. Heb. 4: 
9, 10. Mrs, A. C, M, 



58 RESURRECTION. 

Rksurrhction. 
/ Cor, 15:3-14.. 

SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS. 

1 . By whom had Paul received this revelation ? 
Eph. 3:3. Gal. i: II, 12. When? Acts 26:12- 
19. II Cor. 12:1-5. When *' delivered" to the 
Corinthians? Acts 18: 1-18. 

What is the foujidaiion verity of the gospel f V. 3. 
Acts 17: 3. Heb. 2:9. I Peter 2: 24. Who declared 
the same doctrine on the authority of the same Scrip- 
tures? Luke 22: 37; 24:26,27,44-46. What passages 
of ancient Scriptures v^ould Paul quote in proof that 
Christ **died for our sins according to the Scrip- 
tures? " Gen. 3: 15; 22:18; 26:4; Num. 21:6-9; 
Isa. 50: 6, 53. Dan. 9: 24-26. Zech. 13: 7, etc. 
What connection had the Holy Son of God with 
human sin, and how was that connection made? 
Phil. 2:6-8; then Isa. 53:6, and II Cor. 5:21. 
What connection is there in nature and law between 
all sinners and the death penalty? Gen. 2: 16, 17. 
Ezek. 18:4. Rom. 5:12; 6:23. Gal. 3:10. By 
what process alone is the remission of sins possible ? 
Heb. 9: 22. 

2. Was this foretold ? Isa. 53: 10 ; Psalm 16: 10. 
Hos. 6:2. Psalm 2:7. Acts 13:33; 26:22, 23. 
Luke 24:44-47. 

3. What testimony could Cephas give ? Acts 
2: 22-37. 

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